Products Page

The Products page lists the existing products owned by you or assigned to you. The Products page can be accessed from the global toolbar.

To access the Products page, from the global My Enovia menu, under Product Line, click Products.

All products that you own are displayed by default. You can use the filter in the upper right corner of the page to change the list to show all products.

Related Topics
About Products
Working with Products
Product Revisions Page

Structure Browser



The products that you own are displayed in a structure browser with the following columns:

Name Name of the product. This column contains highlighted links. Click on any name in this column to view the Properties page for that object, or click at the end of the row to view the Properties page in a new browser window. This is a required field.

Note: Certain special characters are not allowed in names. The emxFramework.Javascript.NameBadChars property determines which characters are not allowed. See "Special Character" under Installation and Configuration > ENOVIA > Unified Live Collaboration > Studio Modeling - BPS Administration > Configuring the Properties Files > emxSystem.properties for details.
(Higher Revision Exists icon) Shows if a higher revision of the product exists.
(Active Engineering Change icon) Shows if the object on the list has a related Active Engineering Change (EC) that is not in the Complete, Rejected or Closed state. For details about ECs, see Working with Engineering Changes.
(Primary Image icon) Shows the primary image for the product, if defined. Click the image to open the Images page, where you can view all images for the product. For details, see Managing Images.
Revision Shows the product revision number or code.
Type Shows the type of product.
Description Details about the product. Clicking the Enable Edit button enables in-cell editing of the description.
Start Effectivity The date when the product is available for configuration sessions.
End Effectivity The date when the product is no longer available for configuration sessions.
Governing Project A project created in ENOVIA Program Central that is used to govern the product created in ENOVIA Product Line Management. This column is blank if Program Central is not installed. Clicking the Enable Edit button enables in-cell editing of the governing project.
Current Phase The current milestone, phase or tollgate the project is in, which is the first top-level task that is not in the Complete state. This column is blank if Program Central is not installed.
Phase Completion The estimated completion date of the current phase of the governing project. This column is blank if Program Central is not installed.
State The current state of the product in its lifecycle.
Owner The person responsible for the product.
Design Responsibility The organization or project with design responsibility for the product. Clicking the Enable Edit button enables in-cell editing of the design responsibility.
(Quick File Access icon) Shows the icon if files are checked into or connected to the product. Click the icon to open the Files page. For details, see Files Associated with an Object.
(New Window icon) Clicking this icon opens the Properties page for the product in a new browser window.

Page Toolbar

The Enable Edit button in the page toolbar enables editing of the Description, Governing Project, and Design Responsibility fields.

The Actions menu the page toolbar provides access to the following actions:

Action Description
Create Creates a new product. For details, see Creating a Product.
Add to Portfolio Adds the selected product(s) to an existing portfolio. The Search page opens, where you can define criteria to search for protfolios that currently exist in the database.
Copy Selected Copies the source product structure and rules to another product. For details, see Cloning a Product by Copy Selected.
Delete Deletes the selected product(s) from the database.

Note: You can delete a product only if you have delete access and the product being deleted does not have any revisions.

The Reports menu in the page toolbar allows you to view the following reports. Editing must be enabled and one or more products must be selected.

Report Description
View Product Roadmap Displays a roadmap report for the selected product(s).
View Timeline Shows the timeline representing the roadmap tasks for the selected portfolio. For details, see Viewing Timelines.
Compatibility Report Shows details about the status of all global rules connected to the product. For details, see "Viewing Compatibility Reports" in the Variant Configuration Central User's Guide.
Dependency Report Shows the whole map of dependencies of each product in the selected product structure. For details, see "Viewing Dependency Reports" in the Variant Configuration Central User's Guide.